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...present number is labelled "Spring" and indulges in a pleasing shade of light apple green on the cover. I believe there have been many better numbers than this, for the jokes seem to lack that subtlety which is usually the Lampoon's raison d'etre. The funniest of these to me is that on top of page 135. "The Abbot of Oldham" is mildly amusing as is also the worm epic, the last sentence of which approaches the heights of Mr. Larrabee's work in 1921. No so much can be said for the "Inkings" in this number, with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reviewer Suggests Punch or La Vie Parisienne as Tenic for Lampy's Draughtsmen--"Humorous Weekly Must be Funny" | 3/25/1927 | See Source »

...illumination of the auditorium should be gradually reduced from the rear to the front and all light sources so modified as to prevent glare, especially those which may fall within the spectator's range of vision. A faulty shade leaking a little light in the orchestra or over the organ will be a source of annoying glare for even though the intensity of the reflected light from the screen may be much greater, the direct light by reason of the dark background will by contrast be blinding in effect and harmful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POOR LIGHTING IN MOVIE THEATRES CAUSES BLINDNESS, AUTHORITY SAYS | 2/17/1927 | See Source »

...look at that performance would make the shade of the late P. T. Barnum turn green with envy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Orgy | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...reason I go to Sever is that I have always loved the old hall. I love to sit at one of its quaint benches, with the annals of Harvard football from 1892 to the present day before me, tying the shade string into an ever larger and higher, knot, which mounts the string so fast and far that I have to stand on the bench and finally scale the wall itself to keep up with it. And then I love to put my pencil in a little depression in the top of the bench and watch it actually come...

Author: By A. L. S., | Title: THE GRIME | 2/1/1927 | See Source »

...mercury had already passed the 84 degree mark, Centigrade, which translated into Fahrenheit means 125 degree, which, in turn; means a Turkish bath sort of existence. For, without undue effort, the temperature will rise to 130 degrees and 135 degrees around noon time, and that is registered in the shade. Those familiar with North Africa will doubtless have noticed how Tittle shade there is to be found per square mile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumnus Tells of Raids, Escapes, and Revelry in the Sahara Desert | 1/8/1927 | See Source »

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